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Why You Are Facebook Friends with Your Enemy

by Meg Duley,posted Jul 22 2014 4:00AM

Are you Facebook friends with anyone you dislike in real life? If so, you're in the majority. A poll of nearly three-thousand U.S. adult Facebook users reveals that 68 percent of respondents admitted they have Facebook friends they do not like. But why would they want those they dislike as "friends"? Sixty-nine percent say it's because they want to know what their "frenemy" is up to, while 57 percent say it's because they're family or a loved one's family member.

Other reasons: they're a colleague or former colleague, they'd cause a scene if they were deleted as a friend, and having them as a friend lets me see what others are doing. The average poll taker had 671 Facebook friends, and admits that they consider just an average of 18 of those digital friends true friends.